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in comparatively modern times. At the same time the dialects so 
standardized were probably related to Aztec, and no extreme error 
will result from classifying them all as Aztec dialects. The entire 
Aztec area, as given above, is consequently brought under the same 
color as the other Nahuatlan dialects on the accompanying map. 
MIXxTEC 
According to Clavigero (1, 6)— 
Mixtecapan, or the province of the Mixtecas, extended itself from Acatlan, a place 
distant an hundred and twenty miles from the court, towards the south-east, as far as the 
Pacific Ocean, and contained several cities and villages, well inhabited and of con- 
siderable trade. To the east of the Mixtecas were the Zapotecas. 
Orozco y Berra (1:189) says the Mixtecos extend into the states 
of Puebla, Guerrero, and Oaxaca, occupying in these the departments 
of Centro, Jamiltepec, and Teposcolula. Professor Starr (37) says: 
The country occupied by the Mixtecs extends eastward from the Pacific Coast in the 
high mountain country of the interior. Their territory lies within the states of Gue- 
rrero, Puebla, and Oaxaca, but chiefly in the last. 
The area is usually divided into two districts: Mixteca alta, or 
high Mixteca, and Mixteca baja, or low Mixteca; but this division 
appears to have been given with reference to topography rather than 
to difference in idioms, though it is said that there are several minor 
dialects. Orozco y Berra mentions eleven dialects, as follows: 
Tepuzculano, in Oaxaca Mixteco of Cuilapa 
Mixteco of Yauhuatlan, in Oaxaca Mixteco of Mictlantongo 
Mixteca Baja, in Puebla and Guerrero Mixteco of Tamazulapa 
Montafies, in Guerrero Mixteco of Xaltepec 
Cuixtlahuac Mixteco of Nochiztlan 
Mixteco of Tlaxiaco 
Professor Starr (37) says: 
The language presents many dialects—Orozco listing eleven, of which that of Tepos- 
colula is claimed to be the most important. Not only are different towns said to have 
distinct dialects, but even parts of the same town. 
No attempt has been made, so far as known, to determine the 
differences between these dialects or to locate them more exactly 
than as given by Orozco y Berra. 
TRIKE 
This language, which belongs to the Zapotecan family, is spoken by 
a small tribe residing in the central part of the Mixtec area, and is 
considered by Belmar as more directly related to Mixtec. 
Though giving the language as distinct without classifying it, 
Orozco y Berra locates the tribe in four curacies in Tehuantepec in 
association with, or in the vicinity of, the Chontal (1:186). Although 
